When ready to serve, take out the beef, remove the tape, and put it on a hot dish.

My taste is science and I measure tape.

He produced a measuring tape as he spoke, and started to unwind it, walking rapidly towards the house as he did so.

Norma was an excellent runner, and she reached the tape fully three yards ahead of Ruth.

As the pistol sounded, Hiram launched his craft, and amid cheers from the crowd it soared up, and, just clearing the red tape, settled gracefully down a few feet the other side of the two hundred foot line.

He knew there were better things than to chop and clear land, and make black salts, or tend a saw-mill, or drive oxen, or sell tape and calico; but, in these woods, poor and unfriended, how could he find them?

Then he threw himself into a leather arm-chair, and proceeded to untie the tape and examine the documents one by one, as though in eager search of something.

He was a good little runner, and he done his best; but when I breasted the tape I won a quick-claim deed to his loose change, to a brand-new office over a drug-store, and to enough nickel-plated pliers for a wire-tapper.

He had found a simple tape much preferable.

I could use some new tapes and a book or two.

I measure them on the ground, or when brought to camp before skinning, and run the tape tight along the line, beginning at the tip of the nose, along the middle of the skull, between the ears and neck, then along the spine to the end of the tail, taking any curves of the body.

It is easier to drink red wine than to eat red tape, and not nearly so wearing to one's digestion.

As I had been fingering the tape, watching five and ten millions crumbling from price values every few minutes, I was sure this was the work of Bob Brownley.

He got a tape from Katherine and measured the dimensions of the room, the private hall, and the corridor.

As they sprang over the rocks one after the other, it took Anerley back to the school sports when he held the tape for the hurdle-race.

After it had alighted and the measurers had laid their tapes on the course, the announcer megaphoned, amid a perfect tornado of roars and cheers: "The last flight, ladies and gentlemenand apparently the winning oneaccomplished the remarkable distance of four hundred and fifty feetfour hundred and fifty feet.

Apparently, when the French fought they left red tape behind with the bureaucracy.

"I love that tape of Chesapeake Bay chanteys, by the way.

Mr. Furness then tied the slate with red tape, passing the tape longitudinally and transversely around the middle of the slates.

He peeled the tape from the wall, folded the heart carefully, and put it with the Marsh and Cooley account information in a brown manila envelope.

His client picked up the tape and studied it until his return.

He played a tape of Native American flute melodies echoing down a canyon.

I cannot account for the result, except from the fact that a new clerk read out the wrong tape; and when I telephoned to my West-End Private Inquiry Agent about these very three Stocks, he appears not to have heard me distinctly, and thought I was asking him about Goschens, the old Three-per-Cents., and Bank Stock, about which, of course, he could only report favourably.

The barrister had halted in the doorway to turn over a sheaf of papers that he held in his hand, and, as he replaced the red tape which bound them together, he looked up and our eyes met.

One may triumph over empires, but must respect red tape.